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Welcome to the Rat Race
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Welcome to the world kid, here's some standardized tests
And once you're done with those you can have some student loan debt
And in the meantime here's some other kids to break you down
Oh yeah they're gonna break you down, down, down
You've got no time to waste, you gotta start preparing for the future
So you don't fail at life
You might not have it quite as good as Mom and Dad did
But maybe if you work real hard you'll manage to scrape by
Welcome to the rat race, you're gonna love it here, I just know it
You're gonna love it here
Welcome to the rat race, you're never gonna win it, but you still gotta stay in it
Til you die, til you die
It's a world of rising seas and rising inequality
A shrinking middle class and a growing sense of dread
And yet they wonder why you don't buy diamonds
Why you don't have kids
Why you're anxious and depressed
And so you dream of revolution, and of overthrowing everything
But you don't know where to start
Maybe you'll get around to it next week
Cause right now you're too busy trying not to fall apart
Please don't give up hope, cause you're the only hope that we've got left
You're all that we've got left
Please don't give up hope, cause you're the only hope that we've got left
You're all that we've got left
Welcome to the rat race, you're gonna love it here, I just know it
You're gonna love it here
Welcome to the rat race, you're never gonna win it, but you still gotta stay in it
Til you die, til you die
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In Those Days
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In those days I drove on lonely desert highways with the pedal on the floor
In those days I think I might have cheated death a time or two
In those days I traveled out of my mind to try and find myself
In those days I tasted lips that left their mark upon my soul
In those days we were young and we were reckless and we lived without a care
In those days we really didn't have a lot of things to fear
In those days it never dawned on us that someday we'd look back and say
Those were the days
I remember the sun in my eyes and the wind in my hair
And I remember the sleepless nights and the music in the air
The music in the air
In those days I stood outside to watch the sky and breathe the smell of the rain
In those days I said I gotta get the hell out of this town
In those days I made some friends I hope to keep until the day that I die
In those days I used to dance away the night beneath the stars
In those days I made a fool of myself an awful lot of times
In those days I tasted freedom for the first time in my life
In those days it never dawned on us that someday we'd look back and say
Those were the days
I remember the sun in my eyes and the wind in my hair
And I remember the sleepless nights and the music in the air
The music in the air
And I remember the feeling like I was going nowhere fast
And I remember the feeling when I, when I at last broke free
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I've been trying to walk a fine line these days
Between staying informed and staying sane
Cause everyday I hear about some new kind of fuckery
That fills me with this helpless rage
And we can raise our voices, we can take the streets
But the ones who hold the power are the ones that we can't reach
Cause the only thing that they listen to
Is their greed, is their greed
It's a crazy fucking world run by crazy fucking people
Who tell crazy fucking lies
Yet people still believe them
It's like we've lost our goddamn minds
Oh, it's a crazy fucking world full of crazy fucking people
It really gets me down sometimes
Cause every time I read the news I can't believe my fucking eyes
They cling to power with their dirty tricks and games
Completely deaf to what the people have to say, and it's sickening
Oh it's sickening
To watch them have their way
And I know it's always darkest just before the dawn
But it's so hard to find the strength to carry on through the night
When it feels like we might never see the light
Oh, it's a crazy fucking world run by crazy fucking people
Who tell crazy fucking lies
Yet people still believe them
It's like we've lost our goddamn minds
Oh, it's a crazy fucking world full of crazy fucking people
It really gets me down sometimes
Cause every time I go online I can't believe my fucking eyes
I've been trying to walk a fine line these days
Between staying informed and staying sane
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Gone are the days we thought that mice came out of mud
Gone are the days we healed the sick by letting out their blood
Cause now we've got a better way
And it's called science, and it's here to stay, yeah
Science can save us all from illness and disease
By the miracles of modern medicine you see
There's nothing proven to work better
It's why we live longer than ever, oh
Science help us, show us the way
Save us from superstition, guide us to a better day
So many of us have turned from you but I will never stray
No I will never stray
You won't believe how much your life will start improving
When you stop believing in things that can't be proven
If Mercury's in retrograde
You know it's just another day, yeah
Science can show you we're just one big human family
And we are really not as different as we seem
Cause deep inside we're all the same
We've got the same old DNA, oh
Science help us, show us the way
Save us from superstition, guide us to a better day
So many of us have turned from you but I will never stray
No I will never stray
Cause only science can lead us to the truth
Only science can take us to the moon
Only science can save us from ourselves if we believe
Oh if we just believe
Science help us, show us the way
Save us from superstition, guide us to a better day
So many of us have turned from you but I will never stray
No I will never stray
Cause only science can lead us to the truth
Only science can take us to the moon
Only science can save us from ourselves if we believe
Oh if we just believe
If we believe, if we believe
If we believe, if we would just believe
If we believe, if we believe
Oh, and yes I believe
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A strange mix of rock, funk, electro-pop and existential dread.
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